BOOKS

Researchers found a clever way to test centuries-old manuscripts without damaging them: eraser crumbs.

The classic book turns 138 today.

To increase literacy in Brazil, one publisher combined books with subway passes.

The famed author wrote the one-act comedy when he was in his early 20s.

The choices are as personal as the experience of reading a book.

The first official James Bond adventure to come out after Ian Fleming's death was a critical hit—but the author's identity was a mystery.

The boy detective could never quite solve the mystery of why he never got the Harry Potter treatment.

In their own words.

Who reads more, young people or old people?

The library’s extensive Witchcraft Collection is open to the public and available online.

The first installment of Alvin Schwartz’s 'Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark' trilogy hit bookshelves in 1981. The series would become a preteen cult classic and among the most banned books of the following decades.

The Mütter Museum recently discovered it owns the nation's largest collection of books bound in human leather—and now a research team is trying to track down the rest of the world’s examples.